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Some facts and figures from Angus Community Safety Partnership:

Recorded vandalism in Forfar is down 40% over the last five years. Kirriemuir levels are down 17%. Vandalism rates per head of population in both Forfar and Kirriemuir are above the Angus average. Vandalism in Forfar & Kirriemuir is linked to the town centres, alcohol and the night-time economy. Youth offending in Forfar is concentrated in the town centre and may be linked to school break and closing times. Youth offending in Kirriemuir is rare.

Anti Social behaviour calls received by Angus Council regarding Forfar and Kirriemuir have fallen by 45% in recent years. Rates remain above the Angus average and centre around the main areas of social housing.

Proactive activity by Angus Council has led to a 25% decrease in dog fouling complaints in Forfar and Kirriemuir over the last year. Levels of dog fouling complaints in Forfar and Kirriemuir per population are above the Angus average.

Complaints of littering in Forfar and Kirriemuir have fallen by 24% in recent years. Despite this decrease, population adjusted rates of littering complaints in Forfar & Kirriemuir are currently above the Angus average.

Complaints of fly tipping in Forfar and Kirriemuir fell by 12% in 2014/15 (currently c. 2 per week). Population adjusted rates of complaints in Forfar and Kirriemuir are currently above the Angus average and significantly higher in Forfar & District than Kirriemuir & Dean.  Drugs related offences in Forfar and Kirriemuir have fallen in recent years. Allowing for relative population, Forfar & District has a rate of drug related offences above Kirriemuir & Dean and the Angus average. Relatively high levels of needle finds are recorded in Forfar with much lower numbers reported in Kirriemuir last year. Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) are a growing concern throughout Angus – including Forfar & Kirriemuir.

Serious violent crime has increased in Forfar and Kirriemuir in recent years. Levels of more minor assault have remained constant over recent years. There is a strong link between violent crime, alcohol and the night-time economy. Violent crime is also often linked to domestic issues between co-habiting couples.

Sexual offences have increased in Forfar and Kirriemuir in recent years. This pattern is repeated throughout Angus and Scotland. Both Forfar and Kirriemuir experience levels of domestic related offences that are concentrated in areas of high housing density.

Levels of accidental house fires are higher in Forfar & District compared to Kirriemuir & Dean. This pattern is repeated for deliberate secondary fires.

Rates of reported break-ins to private houses – while still rare and decreasing – are above the Angus average in both Forfar & District and Kirriemuir & Dean Multi Member Wards. 72 people in Forfar:

41 people would share their skills with others

Who do I see quite regularly and say hello to in my local neighbourhood ?

Someone working in a shop – 64 % Policeman/woman – 14 % Community warden – 17 % Health worker – 7 % GP – 13 % No-one – 14 % Other – 35 %

39 people in Kirriemuir:

31 people would share their skills with others

Who do I see quite regularly and say hello to in my local neighbourhood ?

Someone working in a shop – 69 % Policeman/woman – 10 % Community warden – 3 % Health worker – 10 % GP – 15 % No-one – 21 % Other – 39 %

SURVEYS – September/October 2015

If I could change one thing………….

Forfar - 38 people

Kirriemuir – 23 people

DID YOU KNOW? …… in & around Forfar

James McLaren and Son have been making Forfar Bridies since 1893 and The Forfar Bridie originated in the On the present owner, Mrs Karen Murray, early part of the 19th century and

is the great, great granddaughter of now two bakers - Saddlers &

the firm’s founder James McLaren and McLarens - have launched a bid to

the 5th generation of the family to run secure EU protected food status for the business the Forfar bridie.

Local boy, Greig Drummond, was part of the team who won Glamis Castle has close Forfar golf course is the the Curling Olympic fourth oldest 18-hole course connections with the Silver medal at Sochi present Royal Family, in the world. It’s also the Olympic Games 2014 first golf course in the world being the childhood home of the late Queen Mother. to be designed as an 18-hole Princess Margaret was course from the very start! born here in 1930

In December 1662, Helen Guthrie was the last suspected witch to be executed in Forfar’s Playfield, known today as Victoria Street. The women Strathmore Spring Water is were strangled first and their pure, clear spring water Angus Cycling Club, based in bodies burned in a barrel of tar created by nature in a 50 Forfar, was founded in with the heavy smoke blowing year filtration process across the cheering spectators 1882…..and still cawin awa. through the sandstone of the town. layers of the Vale of Strathmore where it is drawn from an aquifer deep underground.

Forfar was once the centre of The Battle of Dun the ancient Kingdom of the Nechtain or Battle of Picts. Restenneth Priory was a The first Scots Nechtansmere was fought repository for the Iona relics and Dictionary, published in between the Picts (led by possibly the site of the first 1808, was compiled in King Bridei Mac Bili) and Pictish (Nectans) church. Forfar by the Northumbrians (led by Robert the Bruce’s son is buried

John Jamieson. King Ecgfrith) on 20 May there.

685. Ecgfrith was killed in

battle as was many of his

army.

Peter Reid (1803-1897), Forfar's Grand Old Man, made his fortune on his Station Park football ground, as the special recipe for Forfar Rock, and is name suggests, was once close to

buried with his family at Newmonthill the town's railway station, situated on

Cemetery. He spent so much of his the Caledonian Railway's main line fortune on others he died a poor man. from Aberdeen to Glasgow and London, He donated many gifts to Forfar, but this station was closed in 1968 as including the Reid Hall and his final part of the Beeching cuts. gift to the town, the Reid Park.

The market town of Forfar is The father of Harley-Davidson located in the heart of the founders William, Walter and valley of Strathmore in Angus - Bon Scott, (born Ronald Arthur Davidson made the hence its traditional role as the political and administrative Belford Scott), singer with the momentous journey across centre of this rural region. The band AC/DC, was born in the Atlantic to the USA from Netherton Smiddy between name of 'Forfar' is probably Forfar at the Fyfe Jamieson Maternity Hospital on 9 July Forfar and Brechin in 1857. derived from the Gaelic 1946. word, Faithir, which means 'watching hill' or 'sentinel'.

DID YOU KNOW? …… in & around Kirriemuir

Ogilvie (a well-known name in The Royal Society for the On Kirriemuir) is thought to be the Protection of Birds (RSPB)

oldest family name in Scotland reserve at Loch of Kinnordy is

with links to the Picts and home to many wetland birds and

origins in the Angus Glens a regular fishing ground for

ospreys.

Captain Scott planned his trip to the South Pole in Tayside Police Museum Kirriemuir was the 1912 near Dykehead, is located in Reform birthplace of JM Barrie, the Street, Kirriemuir. Kirriemuir author of Peter Pan, and is thought to be the location of the original Wendy House.

Bon Scott, singer with the band AC/DC, The town of Kirriemuir grew lived in Kirriemuir for 5 years before up around the church, and moving to Australia in 1952. DD8 Music the area known as the Roods was probably the have been fundraising to honour him by first part of the town where Kirriemuir is having a memorial statue erected in the conscious town planning

also identified with town. Supported by a recent occurred in the 12th or

witchcraft, and some Crowdfunding project, over £47,000 has 13th centuries. older houses still been raised. feature a ‘witches stane’ to ward off evil.

Three brothers from Kirriemuir In around 1860, Kirriemuir Parochial emigrated to Hawaii in the late Board erected a small almshouse at Kirriemuir’s title of 1870s and started a trend. the south of Kirriemuir (now ‘Gateway to the Glens’ is Many of those who followed Beechwood Place). In 1913, it was very accurate. The the brothers from Kirriemuir to registered as a statutory poorhouse beautiful Glens of Isla, Hawaii found employment on and then had an official capacity of Prosen, and Clova can be 34 inmates. In 1930, it was known sugar plantations. The number reached easily from the as Buckie House Poor Law town, and links between of emigrants was so significant Institution. In 1946, it had 15 beds, the town and Glens are that twenty-five percent of some of which were used for still strong Hawaiians are of Scottish accommodating chronically sick descent and have forbears patients. It is now known as Beechie from the area in and around House and operates as a guest house the town.

There are National Nature Reserves in the upper glens at Corrie Fee and Caenlochan: at the head of Glen Doll and During the school year 1940/41 Polish Glen Isla respectively. Here, if you are soldiers arrived in Kirriemuir and were lucky, you might see eagles, wildcats, accommodated in various places in the town. foxes, red deer and myriad rare and Many children were also evacuated to unusual plants and mosses. Kirriemuir from towns such as Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow

Eighteen finely carved early

medieval stone sculptures

have been found in Kirriemuir Handloom weaving in cottages gave way to textile factories in and are now part of a th By 1589 there were records of a the 19 century when Stewart collection. school in Kirriemuir, and a post and Ogilvy’s Gairie Linen office was opened in 1715. In Works, and Wilkie’s Kirriemuir 1861 the town's population was Linen Works became the measured at 4,686. town’s main employers.

LOCAL PROFILING – THEMES Prosperous and Fair Learning and Supportive Safe and Strong Caring and Healthy

Area Working age 16-24 JSA Pupils with Average Positive Accidental Deliberate fires Pension Age DLA Claimants Breast Population Claimants Additional Tariff Destinations dwelling fires (excluding Population per Feeding Mid-year % Support Score S4 (follow-up) per 100,000 chimney fires) % 100,000 exclusively at estimates 2012 Q4 Needs 2013 2012/13 2012/13 population per 100,000 Mid-year estimates 2012 Q4 First Visit 2013 % % % 2012/13 population 2013 2013/14 2012/13 % Scotland 63.08 5.7 19.5 193 90.0 94.0 283.4 19.81 6701.5 48.4 Angus 59.17 5.7 10.3 185 92.7 69.7 95.5 23.83 5866.4 46.9

54.58 82.8 Monifieth West 1.9 9.7 197 0 35 29.97 5224.7 44.4

50.58 96 Monifieth East 3.8 5.4 198 42.1 21 35.53 4655.7 46.3

59.07 82.2 Carnoustie West 4.1 13.1 162 38.9 38.9 21.97 6169 15.4

54.99 97.9 Carnoustie East 2 10.1 189 90.7 0 30.06 4014.9 37.8

59.34 97.5 Monikie 2.5 9.8 182 42.2 42.2 18.37 4906.2 51.2

60.79 92.5 South Angus 2.6 6.7 191 28.9 86.6 19.89 4179.1 53.3

56.48 100 Arbroath Keptie 6.3 5.4 228 27.3 300.3 29.96 6363.9 44

63.28 94.6 Arbroath Harbour 9.5 15.2 171 105 231.1 22.41 10842.5 37.3

58.48 90.5 Arbroath Kirkton 5.3 7.8 204 93.4 56 23.29 6245.1 33.9

59.18 83.9 Arbroath Cliffburn 12.2 25.9 162 20.6 103.2 20.2 7791.3 32.1

60.97 92.7 Arbroath Warddykes 10.5 14.5 140 83 186.7 18.32 8582.7 26.3

59.04 94.2 Letham and Glamis 3.4 10.1 215 72.6 54.4 25.57 5315.2 43.8 Kirriemuir 60.88 93.3 Landward 4.3 8.8 207 72.5 72.5 23.82 5498.4 45.5

58.15 92.3 Forfar West 8.1 6.7 197 41.7 62.5 24.65 5925.9 22.7

59.97 88 Forfar Central 10.2 18.3 154 160.6 240.9 21.95 7511.6 16.7

57.21 89.7 Forfar East 5.9 9.1 198 25.3 177.1 27.82 5549.7 38.9

61.09 88 Lunan 1.4 8.7 181 33.8 33.8 22.67 5878.4 33.3

64.07 93.2 Friockheim 3.6 8.4 190 83.5 97.4 20.71 4550.9 51.6

57.4 93.2 Kirriemuir 5.6 6.5 213 179.4 48.9 26.03 5387.4 40.8

62.01 94.3 Montrose South 6.1 10.5 186 70.6 123.6 22.9 7220.2 36.2

60.93 94.7 Montrose North 5.8 7.4 198 62.7 20.9 23.33 6288.6 35.1

60.95 97 Brechin East 9.9 12.8 147 92.3 307.7 19.25 7796.6 34.1

58.36 93.8 Brechin West 5.7 6.4 135 137.9 82.8 27.61 4263.8 39

58.06 100 Hillside 3.5 5.9 187 27.9 0 20.26 4176.6 40

59.8 100 Angus Glens 1.7 9.6 196 27.5 27.5 24.19 3982.9 58.1

Note: The greatest variance between the geographic areas has been highlighted using GREEN for the most positive and RED for the least positive Other variances between the geographic areas have been highlighted by using YELLOW for the highest numbers/ percentages and BLUE for the lowest. *Source: SNS LOCAL PROFILING – SOME EXAMPLES ECONOMY Area Total School Leaver School Leaver School School Leaver School Leaver Claimant Claimant Destinations Destinations Leaver Destinations Destinations Population: Destinations Positive Claimant Count Count Rate Working Age mid-year Total leaver Count Rate Rate Female: Total no Population: Higher Further Employment Unemployed estimates 2013 Number of Training : destination: Total: Male: (Not business mid-year Education : Education 2012/2013 and seeking School 2012/2013 2012/13 (Not (Not seasonally sites : estimates 2013 2012/2013 : 2012/2013 % employment adjusted) leavers : % % seasonally seasonally 2014 % % % or training: adjusted) adjusted) 2013M07 2012/2013 2012/2013 2013M07 2013M07 % % % %

Scotland 5,327,700 63.08 52,611 36.5 27.8 6.3 20.9 7.1 90.0 *3.8 *5.2 *1.9 197,925 Angus 116,240 59.17 1,070 38.5 30.9 3.8 21.1 4.5 92.7 2.9 3.9 2.0 4,350 Monifieth West 2880 54.58 30 46.7 13.3 3.3 16.7 16.7 82.8 1.5 2.2 0.8 25 Monifieth East 4737 50.58 51 58.8 13.7 0 23.5 3.9 96 1.2 1.3 0.3 115 Carnoustie West 5106 59.07 45 33.3 33.3 6.7 17.8 6.7 82.2 2.9 4 1.8 105 Carnoustie East 5476 54.99 48 50 22.9 6.3 20.8 0 97.9 1.3 1.7 0.8 145 Monikie 4823 59.34 40 22.5 40 5 32.5 0 97.5 1.3 1.8 0.5 175 South Angus 6902 60.79 55 56.4 14.5 5.5 21.8 0 92.5 1.1 1.7 0.2 225 Arbroath Keptie 3725 56.48 36 41.7 30.6 2.8 25 0 100 2.8 3.8 1.6 90 Arbroath Harbour 4730 63.28 38 18.4 42.1 2.6 31.6 5.3 94.6 8.2 12.3 4.2 325 Arbroath Kirkton 5325 58.48 42 26.2 45.2 2.4 19 4.8 90.5 3.4 4.4 2.3 140 Arbroath Cliffburn 4922 59.18 56 32.1 44.6 5.4 8.9 8.9 83.9 5.7 7.4 4.1 50 Arbroath Warddykes 4786 60.97 42 26.2 50 2.4 11.9 4.8 92.7 6.4 8.5 4.5 55 Letham and Glamis 5522 59.04 52 51.9 26.9 0 17.3 3.8 94.2 1.2 0.8 1 320 Kirriemuir Landward 2758 60.88 30 40 16.7 0 36.7 6.7 93.3 1.5 1.7 0.3 155 Forfar West 4762 58.15 39 43.6 33.3 5.1 7.7 7.7 92.3 3.1 3.7 2.4 90 Forfar Central 4961 59.97 50 22 56 4 10 4 88 5.2 6.4 4.2 255 Forfar East 3968 57.21 39 64.1 17.9 0 7.7 5.1 89.7 2.4 3 1.8 160 Lunan 2894 61.09 25 28 24 8 32 4 88 2.1 2 2.1 145 Friockheim 7237 64.07 74 29.7 27 2.7 36.5 2.7 93.2 1.6 2.3 0.9 415 Kirriemuir 6112 57.4 73 45.2 24.7 5.5 21.9 2.7 93.2 2.5 3.5 1.2 170 Montrose South 5664 62.01 35 14.3 54.3 2.9 20 8.6 94.3 4.7 6.4 2.8 295 Montrose North 4750 60.93 38 39.5 31.6 7.9 18.4 2.6 94.7 2.4 3.1 1.7 145 Brechin East 3237 60.95 33 33.3 39.4 6.1 15.2 6.1 97 6 8.4 3.2 75 Brechin West 3600 58.36 48 27.1 33.3 2.1 29.2 8.3 93.8 2.9 3.8 1.8 200 Hillside 3746 58.06 28 53.6 10.7 3.6 28.6 3.6 100 1.2 1.9 0.3 185 Angus Glens 3617 59.8 29 55.2 20.7 6.9 17.2 0 100 1.4 1.7 0.8 295

LOCAL PROFILING – SOME EXAMPLES OLDER PERSONS

Area Total Total Emergency % Population % Population Population: Population - admissions - Aged 75+ Aged 85+ No Pensionable Age aged 65 and 2013 (%) over - 2013 2013 mid year 2013 rate/100,000 mid year mid year estimates Dependency Ratio: children and older people estimates mid year estimates 2012 estimates (aged 65 and over) expressed as a percentage of people aged 16-64 (2013 mid year estimates) Scotland 5,327,700 19.81 25,493 5.89 2.08 Angus 116,240 23.83 20,368 7.02 2.68 Scotland 56.71% Angus 66.36% Monifieth West 2880 29.97 19,061 8.96 2.40 Perth &Kinross 65.43% Monifieth East 4737 35.53 27,691 11.08 5.45 Dundee City 52.45% Carnoustie West 5106 21.97 17,263 6.33 2.17 Aberdeenshire 59.29% Carnoustie East 5476 30.06 17,391 8.62 3.31 Monikie 4823 18.37 21,188 4.69 1.60 South Angus 6902 19.89 19,276 5.38 1.81 Arbroath Keptie 3725 29.96 22,222 10.04 4.21 Arbroath Harbour 4730 22.41 24,465 7.06 3.23 Arbroath Kirkton 5325 23.29 18,018 7.19 2.67 Arbroath Cliffburn 4922 20.2 20,323 6.54 2.07 % of householders in fuel poverty where the highest income householder Arbroath Warddykes 4786 18.32 18,097 4.89 1.13 is 60+ 2008/10 Letham and Glamis 5522 25.57 18,437 6.97 1.85 Kirriemuir Landward 2758 23.82 19,652 6.93 2.03 Scotland 49.0% Forfar West 4762 24.65 18,550 7.60 2.90 Angus 55.5% Forfar Central 4961 21.95 30,430 7.28 3.35 Perth &Kinross 51.4% Dundee City 41.5% Forfar East 3968 27.82 20,400 8.19 3.30 Lunan Aberdeenshire 53.6% 2894 22.67 19,508 5.98 1.42 Friockheim 7237 20.71 16,563 5.62 1.64 Kirriemuir 6112 26.03 18,042 7.44 3.40 Montrose South 5664 22.9 26,329 6.76 4.13 Montrose North 4750 23.33 18,421 6.99 2.42 Brechin East 3237 19.25 22,973 6.46 2.04 Brechin West 3600 27.61 19,512 9.19 3.53 Hillside 3746 20.26 16,641 5.39 1.95 Angus Glens 3617 24.19 15,455 6.19 3.10

Source SNS

Note: The greatest variance between the geographic areas has been highlighted using YELLOW for the highest numbers/percentages and BLUE for the lowest.

LOCAL PROFILING – SOME EXAMPLES EARLY YEARS

Area Total Total Live Percentage of Percentage of Percentage Population: Population singleton Percentage of First time First time Percentage Percentage vaccinated No Aged 0-4 births: women mothers aged mothers aged exclusively breastfed at against 2013 No 2011-2013 smoking at 19 and under: 35 and over: breastfed at the First Visit : DTP/Pol/Hib by mid year 2013 mid year No. booking : 2009 – 2011 2009-2011 the First Visit : 2013-2014 24 months : estimates estimates 2011-2013 % % 2013-2014 % 2013 % % % Scotland 5,327,700 294,281 156,392 19.0 12.4 12.9 35.4 48.4 98.3 Angus 116,240 5,909 3,124 23.3 14.6 11.1 37.6 46.9 98.0

Monifieth West 2880 123 60 6.3 3.2 22.6 44.4 55.6 100

Monifieth East 4737 185 87 10.8 5.3 21.1 46.3 58.5 100

Carnoustie West 5106 312 170 26 14.1 12.1 15.4 30.8 100

Carnoustie East 5476 204 91 16.7 8.3 8.3 37.8 48.6 100

Monikie 4823 287 152 8.9 5.5 9.1 51.2 56.1 100 South Angus 6902 334 163 7.1 3.6 15.5 53.3 66.7 98.4

Arbroath Keptie 3725 158 87 22.6 11.1 8.3 44 48 97.2

Arbroath Harbour 4730 246 154 29.9 15.5 5.2 37.3 43.1 95.8

Arbroath Kirkton 5325 280 153 29.6 17.1 7.1 33.9 42.4 98.2

Arbroath Cliffburn 4922 311 149 40 21.5 10.1 32.1 41.1 94.7

Arbroath Warddykes 4786 337 196 35.3 24.7 6.8 26.3 31.6 98.8 Letham and Glamis 5522 237 120 8.5 8.8 17.5 43.8 58.3 96.9 Kirriemuir Landward 2758 120 59 14.5 16.7 13.3 45.5 59.1 95

Forfar West 4762 257 124 25.6 19.1 4.3 22.7 34.1 97.6 Forfar Central 4961 302 198 31.1 24.5 4.3 16.7 23.3 98.4 Forfar East 3968 179 80 19.1 20 8.9 38.9 44.4 92.9 Lunan 2894 151 75 23.5 5.6 25 33.3 45.5 92.3 Friockheim 7237 286 160 19.3 14.8 18 51.6 57.8 100 Kirriemuir 6112 311 138 25.3 13.9 13.9 40.8 57.1 95.8 Montrose South 5664 296 188 30.3 7.6 5.4 36.2 43.1 100 Montrose North 4750 218 139 28.3 25 7.1 35.1 43.9 98 Brechin East 3237 197 98 35.8 21.3 4.3 34.1 41.5 97.4 Brechin West 3600 163 94 28.7 26.1 13 39 51.2 97 Hillside 3746 261 105 16.7 10.4 22.9 40 47.5 100 Angus Glens 3617 154 84 2.2 6.3 18.8 58.1 64.5 100

Note: The greatest variance between the geographic areas has been highlighted by using GREEN for the most positive and RED for the least positive Other variances between the geographic areas have been highlighted by using YELLOW for the highest numbers/percentages and BLUE for the lowest *Source: SNS LOCAL PROFILES DEMOGRAPHICS and INEQUALITIES Area Total Child Working age Pension Age Average Positive 16-24 JSA Population 16- DLA Population Population Population Population Tariff Destinations Claimants 24 claiming Claimants 0-15 % % Score S4 (follow up) key benefits per 100,000 % Mid-year estimates Mid-year estimates % % % Mid-year estimates Mid-year estimates 2013 2013 2012/13 2012/13 2012 Q4 2012 Q4 2012 Q4 2013 2013 Scotland 5,327,700 17.11 63.08 19.81 193 90.0 5.7 16 6701.5 Angus 116,240 17 59.17 23.83 185 92.7 5.7 13.5 5866.4 Monifieth West 2880 15.45 54.58 29.97 197 82.8 1.9 7.7 5224.7 Monifieth East 4737 13.89 50.58 35.53 198 96 3.8 5.1 4655.7 Carnoustie West 5106 18.96 59.07 21.97 162 82.2 4.1 11.2 6169 Carnoustie East 5476 14.96 54.99 30.06 189 97.9 2 6.8 4014.9 Monikie 4823 22.29 59.34 18.37 182 97.5 2.5 6.3 4906.2 South Angus 6902 19.31 60.79 19.89 191 92.5 2.6 5.2 4179.1 Arbroath Keptie 3725 13.56 56.48 29.96 228 100 6.3 12.7 6363.9 Arbroath Harbour 4730 14.31 63.28 22.41 171 94.6 9.5 23.3 10842.5 Arbroath Kirkton 5325 18.23 58.48 23.29 204 90.5 5.3 14 6245.1 Arbroath Cliffburn 4922 20.62 59.18 20.2 162 83.9 12.2 22.4 7791.3 Arbroath Warddykes 4786 20.71 60.97 18.32 140 92.7 10.5 23.6 8582.7 Letham and Glamis 5522 15.39 59.04 25.57 215 94.2 3.4 7.9 5315.2 Kirriemuir Landward 2758 15.3 60.88 23.82 207 93.3 4.3 15.2 5498.4 Forfar West 4762 17.2 58.15 24.65 197 92.3 8.1 16.2 5925.9 Forfar Central 4961 18.08 59.97 21.95 154 88 10.2 19.5 7511.6 Forfar East 3968 14.97 57.21 27.82 198 89.7 5.9 10.3 5549.7 Lunan 2894 16.24 61.09 22.67 181 88 1.4 5.4 5878.4 Friockheim 7237 15.21 64.07 20.71 190 93.2 3.6 8.8 4550.9 Kirriemuir 6112 16.57 57.4 26.03 213 93.2 5.6 12 5387.4 Montrose South 5664 15.1 62.01 22.9 186 94.3 6.1 12.3 7220.2 Montrose North 4750 15.75 60.93 23.33 198 94.7 5.8 12.8 6288.6 Brechin East 3237 19.8 60.95 19.25 147 97 9.9 21.2 7796.6 Brechin West 3600 14.03 58.36 27.61 135 93.8 5.7 12.8 4263.8 Hillside 3746 21.68 58.06 20.26 187 100 3.5 8.9 4176.6 Angus Glens 3617 16.01 59.8 24.19 196 100 1.7 6.8 3982.9

Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD)

Number of datazones in 20% most deprived in Scotland Source: Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation. Datazone – area with 500-1000 residents

The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) identifies small area concentrations of multiple deprivation across all of Scotland, in ‘datazones’ (areas with populations between 500-1000). This is measured by considering several different types of deprivation (see the list above). In an area like Angus, with small towns and rural areas, poverty and deprivation is likely to be more dispersed than in urban areas and therefore less likely to be highlighted in SIMD. Not everyone in an area of multiple deprivation is deprived, just as not every deprived person in Angus lives in an area identified by SIMD.

Source: SIMD 2012